Master's Thesis Research

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The purpose of this seminar is to help you toward the completion of your MA thesis. We’ll aim to do this through a series of four workshops across the semester. Collaboration is the guiding principle of this seminar, and to that end we are all tasked with reading each other’s work in a spirit of intellectual generosity but also critical attention. “We talk in company, we write alone.” This has both its drawbacks and benefits, but in reading and commenting on each other’s work this seminar will foster as far as possible a collaborative dimension of writing, the point being that in doing so we improve both our own writing and, crucially, our capacities to read and respond to the work of others. Students are expected to read and engage with their fellow student’s work.